Ashley Furniture’s headquarters and manufacturing facility in Arcadia, Wis., has about 67 acres of roof, which can accommodate a roughly 7-megawatt solar array that would be the largest rooftop system in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin-based Ashley Furniture intends to spend $29 million on solar panels to power its factories as part of a plan to offset more than a third of its energy needs. The company, with electricity demands equivalent to more than 10,000 Wisconsin homes, expects to trim its electric bills by $5 million in the first year alone…
The first phase of installations involves about 17.5 megawatts of capacity, said Chad Sorenson, president of Madison-based SunPeak, which is handling the design, construction and maintenance of the projects. Included in that is a roughly 7-megawatt system on the roof of Ashley’s headquarters campus in Arcadia, which would be the largest rooftop solar system in the state …
Ashley’s goal is to offset 35 percent of its electricity needs, which will likely result in more panels.